The 100 Most Common English Words. How many can you guess in five minutes? I got 52. Judging by the Metafilter thread where I found the link, that’s a pretty good score!By the end there I was, like, reciting Shakespeare and the Gettysburg Address and stuff in my head trying to come up with common words I had forgotten.
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I sort of sucked at that!
46.
As I said over at Eileen’s I pulled an even 50. (I am nothing if not average.)